Improvement in eye-shanks for buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUDOVIC MILLAUX, 10F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN EYE-SHANKS FOR BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l94,528, dated August28, 1877 application filed August 3, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUDOVIG MILLAUX, of Waterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the folllowing isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in buttons; and theinvention consists ina shank having cup and eye constructed from onepiece of metal, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make, construct, and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and arrangement, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and inwhich- Figure 1 is a top view of a cup stamped from sheet metal. Fig.2shows the eye formed of wire. Fig. 3 is a section, showing the cup andeye soldered together. Fig. 4 shows a section of wire from which myshank is made. Fig.5 is a section of my shank after being provided withcup and eye. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 7 is a perspectiveview of my invention.

There are many objections to the cup and eye now in use. The extremedelicate constructionrenders their attachment to the bottom front verydifficult to perform without materially weakening the soldered joint ofcup and eye.

The cup-eye now in use is constructed or formed in the following manner:The cup shown in Fig. 1 is stamped from sheet metal. The eye is made of?wire bent in shape, as shown in Fig. 2. The cup and eye are thensoldered together, as shown in Fig. 3. My cup-eye is made from one pieceof metal, as shown in Fig. 4, and consists in providing wire of therequisite size with a cup at one end and an eye at the other.

The wire is automatically fed up between two half-dies, with one-halfimpression of the cup-eye in each. The dies are-then forced together,forming the eye, and while thus confined a punch is forced between thehalf-dies in a suitable opening, forming the cup, thereby producing theshank or cup-eye complete, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, from one piece ofmetal. The cup-eye is then secured to the bottom front in any of thewell-known ways.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, the hereinbetbre-describedcup-eye for buttons, having cup and eye constructed of one piece ofmetal, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing asmy own I affix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

LUDOVIO MILLAUX.

Witnesses E. W. UPsoN, E. J. MANVILLE.

